Markdown Style Guide

This is a comprehensive guide to the Markdown styling used in this blog. It demonstrates all the available formatting options and how they appear on the site.

Typography

Headings

Headings from h1 through h6 are supported. The main title of the article is typically an h1, so it's recommended to start your content with an h2.

This is a Heading 4

This is a Heading 5

This is a Heading 6

Paragraphs and Line Breaks

This is a paragraph. Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. Nullam eget sapien non erat lacinia aliquam. Fusce eget sapien non erat lacinia aliquam.

This is another paragraph with a line break.
This line appears after a line break.

Emphasis

This text is italicized

This text is also italicized

This text is bold

This text is also bold

This text is bold and italicized

This text has a strikethrough

Blockquotes

This is a blockquote. It can span multiple lines and can contain other Markdown elements.

This is the second paragraph in the blockquote.

This is a blockquote with a citation.

— Albert Einstein

Lists

Unordered Lists

• Item 1
• Item 2
  • Nested Item 1
  • Nested Item 2
• Item 3

Ordered Lists

1. First item
2. Second item
   1. Nested item 1
   2. Nested item 2
3. Third item

Task Lists

• Completed task
• Incomplete task
• Another incomplete task

Code

Inline Code

This is an example of inline code.

Code Blocks

// This is a code block
function greet(name) {
  console.log(`Hello, ${name}!`);
}

greet('World');

/* CSS code block */
.markdown-content {
  font-size: 16px;
  line-height: 1.6;
}

.markdown-content h1 {
  font-size: 2rem;
  margin-bottom: 1rem;
}

Links and Images

Links

This is a link to the homepage

This is an external link

Images

Image with Caption

Tables

Header 1	Header 2	Header 3
Cell 1	Cell 2	Cell 3
Cell 4	Cell 5	Cell 6
Cell 7	Cell 8	Cell 9

Horizontal Rules

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Footnotes

Here's a sentence with a footnote. ¹

Advanced Formatting

Abbreviations

*[HTML]: Hyper Text Markup Language *[CSS]: Cascading Style Sheets

The HTML specification is maintained by the W3C.

Definition Lists

Term 1 : Definition 1

Term 2 : Definition 2a : Definition 2b

Conclusion

This guide covers most of the Markdown syntax supported by this blog. Feel free to reference it when writing your own posts.

Footnotes

1. This is the footnote. ↩